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...deeper, he discovered that six heavy crates, which he suspects contained contraband arms, had been loaded into the jet's cargo bay in Cairo without military customs clearance. To squeeze them onto the plane required removing some of the soldiers' duffel bags. Gerald De Porter, the former Army customs inspector there, who is now working as a pharmacist in Fayetteville, North Carolina, says, "I couldn't check the cargo because I wasn't issued a pass to go out on the tarmac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gander Different Crash, Same Questions | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

Also described in the teletype is an incident that "may provide insight into the possibilities of a rogue bag being inserted into the baggage system." On a guided tour of the baggage area in September 1989, it was disclosed, detective inspector Watson McAteer of the Scottish police and FBI special agent Lawrence G. Whitaker "observed an individual approach Coding Station 206 with a single piece of luggage, place the luggage in a luggage container, encode a destination into the computer and leave without making any notation on a duty sheet." This convinced the two investigators that a rogue suitcase could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pan Am 103 Why Did They Die? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...exact cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to Inspector Paul Sheehan of the Cambridge Fire Investigation Department...

Author: By Joann S. Chan, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Blaze Guts Room In Dunster House | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Eddie G. Marchesseuot, 66, an inspector for the election commission at Ward 8, Precinct 3--the Quincy House polling site--said he was impressed that 156 voters showed...

Author: By William C. Slaughter, CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS | Title: Students Hit Polls in Large Numbers | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

Barnaby knows cats. He has been judging cat shows for twenty-seven years. "I see the insides of a lot of airports and hotel rooms," he says, "but by the end of the day I'm too tuckered out to hit the town." A trucking company safety inspector by profession, Barnaby spends weekends away from his Victorville, California home, traveling to San Diego or Akron or Portsmouth or Miami, where he examines two hundred, maybe three hundred cats in a day, searching for conformity to an ideal established by a board of seventeen of his colleagues, an ideal that...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Not Too Sexy for These Cats | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

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